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ItemBudget reform in China: Progress and prospects in the Xi Jinping era(ANU Press, 2018)
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ItemThe amalgamation of Malagasy(Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2010)
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ItemThe comparative method in Austronesian linguistics(Mouton de Gruyter, 2017)This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of IndoEuropean Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
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ItemWho were the first Malagasy, and what did they speak?(Institute of South East Asian Studies, 2017-01-01)
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ItemWorld Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA)(John Wiley & Sons, 2018-10-05)Since the early twentieth century, countless modern anthropological studies have paid tribute to the richness of cultural diversity across societies, as well as highlighting some of the existential conditions we all share as human beings. The discipline has not been able to serve as an undistorted mirror of this unity in diversity, however, because scholars from a few privileged nations have dominated the process of anthropological knowledge construction over most of this period of time. The World Council of Anthropological Associations was founded to overcome this deficit by providing a global platform for free communication and democratic participation in the spirit of a new “world anthropologies” paradigm.
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ItemRemembering Suffering and Survival: Sites of Memory on Buru(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Survivors and their families have remembered the events of 1965 and the related suffering of persons targeted in the violence in complex ways. In the absence of state recognition of the suffering of victims of 1965, survivors and families have had to pass on their memories in personal ways making their own meanings of these sites of terror within families and communities of former political prisoners. This chapter considers this process in terms of memories of imprisonment on the remote eastern Indonesian island of Buru.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMaking Spaces in Malaysia: Women's Rights and New Muslim Religiosities(Oxford University Press, 2017)
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ItemParmenides and Mulla Sadra: The Mystical Journey to Being(ICAS Press, 2012)A comparative analysis of the philosophical views of Parmenides and Mulla Sadra is established on two assumptions. First, it is argued that both thinkers have developed their ontology under divine instructions revealed to them in a mystical experience. Second, in the reconstruction of their mystical experience asserted the priority of 'Being' as the sole reality and the foundation of knowledge and the existence of the world.
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ItemPhase one of the Longitudinal study of Kobe women's ethnographic interviews 1989-2019: Kanako 1989 and 2000(Routledge, 2018)This chapter introduces the first phase of the Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women’s Ethnographic Interviews 1989–2019, a real-time interdisciplinary study which examines changes in discourse of the same group of women in Japan. It explains the nature of the ethnographic interviews to be analysed and the merits of the multi-analytical discourse (MAD) approach for an interdisciplinary study like this. By locating it in the existing literature on language variation and changes, and on the Japanese women’s discourse, the chapter argues for the book’s innovative significance. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book expands the longitudinal studies in the field of traditional sociolinguistics to analyze change that occurs within situated discourse across differing life-stages. Variations exist in the vernacular discourse of daily lives. Language is also in constant change, as are the life-courses and speech of individuals. The book makes original contributions to our understanding of Japanese language use by illuminating variations and shifts in women's discourse over a period of a decade, in a study that spans three decades. The sharing of Okano's ethnographic data between the team also gives rise to unique ethical issues. The focus on discourse, and multi-layered analysis, advances people's knowledge of changes and shifts beyond a conventional diachronic linguistic analysis of the single-feature, whether phonetic, grammatical or lexical.
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ItemWriting sexual identity onto the small screen: seitekishoosuu-sha (sexual minorities) in Japan(Routledge, 2018-02-01)This chapter examines how the term “LGBT” is inscribed onto the screen in mainstream news and currenta affairs programming in Japan. Analysis of captioning and flip-cards illustrates how the term “LGBT” is visualised to augment the hyper-visibility of ‘sexual minorities.’ Mediatized hyper-visibility, however, is produced alongside corporate expansion into lucrative ‘rainbow markets’ and a proliferation of political discourses pertaining to LGBT rights. Histories of representations and advocacy for LGBT issues and rights are rendered invisible within this process. Critical examination of text in the media offers one way to analyze complex citational practices in which discourses of tolerance/acceptance and in/visibility become entangled.